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TOOL:

Step 1 in Improving Staffing: Examine Your Current Workforce

Published on Mon Apr 20, 2009

Establishing a baseline helps you measure success.

Quality Partners of Rhode Island's staffing stability toolkit includes nine worksheets to help facilities examine their staffing practices, the cost of turnover, and how financial incentives might be affecting the problem, etc. Check out the information about the first worksheet below, including links to download the staffing toolkit guide and worksheets.

Resource: To download this worksheet (No. 1) and the other eight, go to http://www.riqualitypartners.org/cfmodules/objmgr.cfm.

Click on "workforce" in the sixth line on the page. Download the guide to using the toolkit overall at www.riqualitypartners.org/2/Site/CustomFiles/Qlty_DocMgr/Staff%20Stability%20Toolkit%201.2_122308_smm.pdf.

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